OLYMPIA 2003

Disc One: 1. Intro, 2. Start Me Up, 3. Live With Me, 4. Neighbours, 5. Hand Of Faith, 6. No Expectations, 7. Worried About You, 8. Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker), 9. It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll, 10. Stray Cat Blues, 11. Dance, 12. Everybody Needs Somebody To Love, 13. That’s How Strong My Love Is.

Disc Two: 1. Going To A Go Go, 2. Band Introductions, 3. The Nearness Of You, 4. Before They Make Me Run, 5. Love Train, 6. Respectable, 7. Rip This Joint, 8. Honky Tonk Women, 9. Tumbling Dice, 10. Brown Sugar, 11. Jumping Jack Flash.

This no label release presents the Stones Olympia concert in soundboard quality from their European 2003 Licks Tour;

The Olympia concert was released on At The Olympia (C.Cat 705-6), A Brand New Live Affair (VGP 351), Last Night in Paris (no label), Feel You in the Night (Pignose PGN 042) and 5 tracks on Lost Legal Live Tracks (Rattlesnake 235-6); other releases on cdr have been Olympia on Fire Tonight, Last Oui Oui (Phoenix Rec.D356882), Licks Go Olympia (STS 297-8), Last Night in Paris ( RS 01 1-2),   Hear Who s Talking, Hot Licks in Paris, Les Rolling Stones A L’Olympia de Paris, Bienvenue a Paris 2003, Showdown in Paris, L’Olympia is Dancing, The Liberation of Paris (Phoenix Rec. D356890). This recording has also appeared on the 17 cds box Licks Tour Europe 2003 (WLR SF 03) and on the Four Flicks official DVD set. It is always nice to hear a soundboard or IEM version of a full concert, however here we get Mick’s vocals too much upfront and the guitars too much in the background, so I guess we should wait for Mayflower’s treatment to fully enjoy this recording. There is some interference at the beginning of Stray Cat Blues and Keith vocals are almost incomprehensible, this to say that this release could have been better if only worked properly.